Do you have a meteorite
for sale?
......or even a whole collection?
I may be interested in buying it.Send me an email

Sorry,
not interested in unidentified rocks
found in your garden, beach, field, etc.

Welcome to my
website

Me, Rob Elliott filming a tv show in the
Hambleton strewnfield, April 2012.
I'm former proprietor of one of the largest meteorite dealerships
in the World, and now a full-time meteorite hunter here in the UK.

I sometimes sell & swap meteorites that I
have acquired in exchange for some of my earlier finds &
collection pieces - see
my sales pages

Several
meteorites have been seen to fall on British soil over the
centuries. A fireball crossing the sky and with meteorites
being picked up soon afterwards. Meteoriticists refer to these as
"witnessed falls" or simply just "falls".

Only THREE
meteorites have been found by chance in the UK, un-seen, un-heard
or maybe just un-noticed, yet waiting to be found and recognised.
Meteoriticists refer to these chance discoveries as "finds".
......I found them all!

The Leighlinbridge
meteorite
Fell in S. Ireland (Eire) 1999

The Glenrothes meteorite
Found in Fife, Scotland 1998

The Hambleton
meteorite
Found in Yorkshire, England 2005

The Strawberry
Fields meteorite
Found in Perthshire, Scotland 2011

(click on the
above images for information and pictures of each meteorite)

Fernlea
Meteorites is owned and operated by myself, Rob Elliott.
My background lies as an electronics engineer and
designer of miltary control systems within the UK
aerospace industry, and later with atomic weapon
development for US Defence. Somewhere along the way, I
began to collect meteorites and have since maintained a
growing collection of rocks from space. This collecting
passion later developed into a full time business which
grew into one of the largest meteorite dealerships in the
world.

The meteorites
advertised on our sale pages are genuine rocks from space.
However, a meteorite is not a meteorite just because I or
anyone else thinks it is, or because we might believe
it to be......in reality, meteorites have to be formally
recognised, authenticated, studied, classified and named
before they can truly be accepted as meteoric material
originating from outside planet Earth. For these reasons,
our meteorites have been professionally authenticated as
such by recognised institutions and individuals involved
in the study of meteoritics.

Many of our meteorites
have been acquired through trade with scientists,
researchers & curators of the World's top museums,
institutions and National Collections - we offer them
meteorites that aren't yet represented in their
collection, and in return they offer us meteorites that
aren't represented in our collection.
This arrangement benefits everyone involved, because not
only do our respective collections grow accordingly, but
new meteorites then become available for research and
study.

A beautiful 845g Pultusk
meteorite,
acquired through trade with the
Natural History Museum, London

A beautifully flight-marked 2.5kg
iron meteorite
from the 1947 Sikhote-Alin fall in Russia

Meteorites come in a variety of different shapes and
sizes. Quickly recovered meteorites that have not
suffered from long exposure to the harmful effects of the
World's weather, show fusion crust and regmaglypts
("thumbprints") over their surface - the result
of high speed, often very violent, flight
through our Earth's atmosphere.

This perfectly formed impact crater is only 4mm in
diameter, and was formed by a "shooting star"
- around the same size as the point on a needle - as it
smashed into this Russian space station and vaporised on
contact. Dashing around the solar system at speeds of
several miles per second can take it's toll on incoming
space dust! Click here for more pictures &
information.

Space Station Zap Pit

A stony meteorite which
fell to through the roof and ceiling
of a house in Park Forest, Illinois at the end of
March 2003

Well, it probably isn't a real meteorite.
But, if you're confident that your rock is worthy of
further investigation, I would suggest that you send a
sample to a professional meteoriticist (not a geologist -
most geologists have never seen a real meteorite). Search
online for museums that have a meteorite collection, and
you may well find that they have an expert who can help
you identify your rock.

Please be aware of the
following:
Unless your meteorite has already been professionally
authenticated, classified & named, or
happened to fall through the roof of your house during
the night, crashed through your car, or hit you on the
head, please do not contact me about it.